SInce a lot of our students are taking the CAAP tests in math and writing skills Wednesday, I'm calling off class ... but assigning a 10- to 15-inch feature story on the CAAP tests or any subject of your choice.
You will be graded on how well you use the advice in Chapter 6 in Tim Harrower's "Inside Reporting" on choosing a viable story idea, reporting and writing the story. I will post further tips and requirements to this blog post ... so take a look at it from time to time!
WARNING: You also may be given the opportunity to express yourself in writing about how specifically you followed Tim Harrower's sage advice in "Inside Reporting."
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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